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Latin
Etymology
A substantivisation of the neuter forms of cōnsultus (“consulted”), the perfect passive participle of cōnsulō (“I consult, reflect, or take counsel”, “I meet, consider, or deliberate”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cōnsultum n (genitive cōnsultī); second declension
- a response by an oracle to the consultation or inquiry of a deity
- a decree, decision, resolution, plan, action taken, or measure adopted
- senatus consultum ultimum ― final decree of the Senate
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
References
- “consultum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “consultum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- consultum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- consultum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 412/3.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to send and consult the oracle at Delphi: mittere Delphos consultum
- a resolution of the senate (not opposed by a tribunicial veto) was made: senatus consultum fit (Att. 2. 24. 3)